Three Unrelated Thoughts/Stories

** Yesterday I was driving to a graduation party, and I ran over a chipmunk. I came to this conclusion as follows:

• I saw the chipmunk wander into the road as I was approaching it.
• I heard and felt a thump-thump as I drove by the chipmunk at 60 miles per hour (it was a country road in the middle of nowhere).
• I looked back via the rear view mirror and the chipmunk was not moving.

My apologies to said chipmunk.

** When I go home from school and sleep in my bed at home, I find that my feet dangle over the edge of the bed. The beds at the dorms at school are extra-long twin size, so my feet don't dangle over the edge on those. However, before going to college, I never felt that my feet dangle over the edge of my bed at home.

** Last night, I was kind of lying around in bed for 2 hours not able to fall asleep (partly because of my dangling feet I think). As a result, I started to reflect on my life story, partly because seeing friends from high school kind of reminds me of past years of my life. Now, I like to think that I have a pretty good memory (especially for things like numbers), so I remember quite a lot about my life story. Now, I am not familiar with many other peoples' life stories, but after a while of reflecting, I came to the conclusion that my life story is pretty fucked up. And to that, I laugh. What else can I do?

Summer

In an effort to keep my blog-updating frequency to at least once per month, I shall update today. However, I don't really know what to write about.

I went to a high school graduation party yesterday. It was fun to see people who I haven't seen in a long time and hangin' with them and stuff. It was also kind of cool to see everyone grow up and stuff, because this year's graduation class consists of all the people who were high school freshmen on the swim team back when I was a senior on the team, and they were all smaller than I was back then but now they're all bigger than I am (and more ripped than I am, of course).

Pandora just played Take a Picture by Filter, which made me happy.

Springtime Weather Woes

I'm not a big fan of springtime weather throughout the day. It's mainly the fact that it's usually around 30 degrees outside in the morning when I head out to class, and at midday it gets to be a comfortable 70 degrees. This usually poses a dilemma in the morning when I decide what to wear for the day. Ideally, I would wear a coat for 30-degree weather, but later in the day when it's 70 degrees outside, it's quite awkward wearing a coat or lugging one around. However, if I decide to start the day dressed for 70-degree weather, then I will probably catch a cold or something and get sick, which is also not desireable.

Last night

We were walking from West Campus to Collegetown, and behind the law school my friend and I find a small purse lying on the edge of the path. We figured someone lost it accidentally and is probably going to look for it sooner or later, so we took a look inside to see if we can get the person's name. She had her ID card in there. We then decided to be technologically savvy (and a little creepy I suppose) and look up her name online via my friend's Blackberry to see if there's a phone number we can call and get the thing returned to its righteous owner. Just as we were about to call the number, she walked by us going the other way and recognized her lost purse that we were carrying, and all was good.

Ok, this was a pretty dumb story. She was kinda cute though.

Spring Break Commences

After three weeks of exams, labs, projects, ridiculous homeworks, CUSat babysitting, trying to find a job and such, spring break is now upon us. Since I haven't updated in over a month, I'm going to try something new and do this in pictoral form.



CUSat testing at Cornell has ended, and the satellite is now at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Launch is currently slated for February 2010.



I finished the short stack at Hughes again yesterday morning. The pancakes were filled with bananas. However, Nicole is still a beast because she arrived 15 minutes late and still finished the short stack first. As seen in the picture, the pancakes are as big as Nicole's head.



Today was Dragon Day at Cornell, where the architects try to show that they're better than engineers. The dragon looked like a dragon this year. A major disappointment was the lack of large fires (aka burning the dragon). Apparently Cornell is trying to be more environmentally friendly or something like that.